30 Dec 1809

Parl y. Reform

+ '.1 continued

Ch.11. III. Speakers Doctrines

'.1 Examination

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Abbots motions[?] [...?] J.B. facidity[?]

Si vis me stare, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi

Abbot has piped, J.B. not danced.

4. Reason 4. "And it furnishes the most formidable weapons to those who are professing, and I am willing to believe sincerely professing to reform, but as I fear, are, in truth and in fact, by the tendency of their endeavours, labouring to subvert the entire system of our Parliamentary Representation."

In this I have the misfortune to behold a lowring passage, big with black clouds which not to speak of public men /persons known/ it may be matter of personal interest to so obscure an individual as myself to endeavour to clear away /up/. For how bad [...?] a state of things /an operation/ that meant by subversion be by so high an authority considered as being, it is what for I know I may at this very moment be in my own person and by this very pen labouring at.

that the state of things which by these humble labours I am labouring to bring about is not capable /incapable/ in any sense capable with truth and propriety capable of being characterized by the term subversion is more than I would take upon me to affirm. Of the state of things which now has place it appears to me that it is itself a subversion of another state which in this same country was formerly in existence. If so then by /in/ labouring to subvert the subversive, all /the worst/ I do is to labour /labouring/ to put things again into their place.